Archives for
November 2012

It's getting more and more difficult for content producers to get the audience attention that television shows and films need to stay afloat. Kay M. Madati, head of entertainment and media and global marketing solutions at Facebook, discussed this an...

Reddit has grown from a network of niche communities to the "front page of the Internet." The social news site, which received 47 million visitors last month, has become a voice to be reckoned with on the web. Users have discovered new talent and kep...

Job seekers who believe the reference section of their resume isn't as important as the rest of it should think again, new research shows. A study by CareerBuilder revealed the vast majority of employers (80%) contact references when evaluating poten...

It's about time birds take Twitter back. That's exactly what Ir, an independent Latvian magazine, did by giving small titmice birds the ability to tweet to their beaks' content. The magazine started the Hungry Birds Twitter account to help increase t...

Signaling an intent to compete with Amazon in online shopping, Google announced Friday it is buying BufferBox. It's a startup that runs a parcel storage service similar to Amazon Locker. Both services let you order online, then deliver your package t...

Nate Silver is no god, and probably not a wizard, but he's definitely a genius. No, not because he correctly predicted the 2012 presidential election earlier this month, down to each individual state's results. But because he unlocked the key to mesm...

When Hearst first launched digital editions for the iPad, it loaded its titles with interactive features -- features, Hearst President David Carey said, readers don't necessarily want. "We had to find out whether people wanted something all-new and i...

A child can only ask about a chicken's road crossing habits so many times. When the chicken gets fried or no one answers the knock knock door, kids can peruse the Internet for funny jokes. But not all jokes on the web are appropriate for little eyes ...

Are you one of the 29% of people who say they can't live without their cellphones? According to a recent Pew Research study, people have a hard time breaking away from their cellphones -- and their friends don't help stop this addictive behavior. The...

I'll admit, I was skeptical about iTunes 11 before it finally arrived late Thursday. Announced by Apple during the launch of the iPhone 5, it was promptly forgotten, rating not a mention during the iPad mini launch. Promised during October, it only j...

Global hunger and poverty organization Heifer International released the first non-profit tablet magazine app Thursday, launching a digital edition of its quarterly publication World Ark. The app is available for free for in the App store for iPads a...

At the Mashable Media Summit on Friday, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian joined Mashable features editor Matt Silverman on stage to talk about how to monetize a website while still putting the community first. By doing so, Reddit hopes that advertise...

During this year's U.S. presidential election, it wasn't uncommon for political journalists to watch the debates with two, maybe three computer screens, a mobile device ready for push notifications and, of course, a social dashboard scrolling in the ...

Older adults are not immune from the flood of technology in today's world -- and they're eager to get onboard. A growing number of senior citizens, as well as tech entrepreneurs, are seeing technology as a tool to enrich their lives as they reach old...

World AIDS Day, celebrated each Dec. 1, is a global day devoted to raising awareness of the disease, which affects millions around the world. Social media campaigns aplenty are spreading messages of hope across the Internet: As of Nov. 30, before Wor...

What would make more than 500,000 Facebook users share one guy's photoshopped picture of a ticket with the winning Powerball numbers? Raise your little pinky, do your best Dr. Evil voice, and say it with me now: one meeeellion dollars. "Looks like I ...

There have been plenty of complaints in recent years that new media outlets have fragmented the news consumption experience for readers, but NPR's Brooke Gladstone argued during an interview at Mashable's Media Summit on Friday that the media has alm...

When we think about the future, we're inspired by a combination of movies, books and other pop culture references. Among all the fanciful gizmos and gadgets, the flying car is one of the most classic futuristic concepts in sci-fi. For my entire life,...

Three years ago, when the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) was developing its local, national online video platform, the company had a 65-year-old viewer test the user experience. "This isn't at all what I expected from PBS," she said about the radi...

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